Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-19
Tenant Houses Destroyed.

Tenant houses destroyed.
LONDON, January 1Sth.-A special CORE
spondent at Glepbeigh, County Kerry,
ireland. who is investigating the evictions
on the Winn estates, telegraphs that $50
policer zen and bailitfs started for Coomad-
shorn, a wild and almost inaccessible glen,
to evict the occupants of nine houses, the
only dwellings in the neighborhood The
peasantry learned of their approach and
removed the usual means Of crossing the
stream near the glen, and which was
swollen by recent storsns. This delayed
the evictors in doing their work, as the
police, rather than wet their feet by fording
the stream, preferred to make a long detour.
Then the peasantry women. who rejoiced
in the trouble they had caused the police
and bailiffs, carried the reporters and others
who were friendly to the tenants across the
stream on their backs. The police, with
much difficulty, finally succeeded in climb
ing the glen. Then, with fixed bayonet,
they proceeded to the houses, amid the
groans of the people, and ordered them to
be vacated. Several of them have already
been emptied and the work of eviction is
proceeding After the tenants left the
houses were leveled with crowbars and the
vacated dwellings burned.
From Howell to Workhouse.
LONDON, January 1S:h.-The workhouses
of Ireland are described by the Times as
heaven on earth in comparison with the
houses of evicted tenants. The Times
seems TO think it no hardship to tenants,
but a great advantage to exchange The
squalor of their so-cal,ed cottages tor the
luxurious advantages of The workhouse.
The same paper, cynically examining the
claims of the evicted, argues that most of
the miserable people thrust out of their
homes are mere squatters on land and
without rights.
Terrible Accident in London.
LONDON, January ISth.-A frightful ac-
cident happened in this city this evening.
The Hebrew Dramatic Club gave an inter
tainment at n Prince-street theater, which
was attended by about 500 persons. most
ly Jews. Some one in the gal
lery, doubtless for q joke, shouted
a. Fire." The gas was Immediately
turned Oft at the meter and terrible panic
ensued. The people rushed in solid mass
for the doors, and numbers were trodden
under foot. When the panic had subsidized
it was found that twenty-five youths had
been trampled to death in the rush to
escape, and many others injured.
Arrest of a SwindIer.
LONDON, January 1Sth.-A man named
OeOISt IIdilh4iH 1IiqtlSOiij WIZ ltRlG-
sented himself as an American solicitor, 81
years of age, and residing at the Hotel Me-
tropole in London, was charged in the
MAJ lborough-s Police Court to-day
with obtaining large sums of money by
fraudulent means from q man named
Deakiu, OF Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.
Anderson had pretended 20 be engaged
in recovering property in England belong
ing to the ancestors of Deakin, and had
succeeded in swindling his victim out of
about $4,000, which Deakin bad given
him to further the prosecution of the
work.
Decent People are Th ,nkful.
LONDON, January 1S.h. = Lord Colin
Campbell has abandoned his intention to
move for a new trial of his divorce suit
against his wife, and will not apply to the
Court to fix date for caring.
The New Coercion Bill.
LONDON, January 10Th a. M The
Standard prints summary of the new
coercion bill 1t will empower the Crown
to summon special jurors, change the
venue of trials, and enable magistrates to
deal summariiy with conspiracy, intimida-
ton and boycotting The bill has
been approved by the Cabinet, and
will, in order to evade the
criticism of exceptional legislation for
Ireland, apply TO the whole kingdom.
The Standard discusses the scheme seri-
ously. 1t thinks it is, if anything, too
modest, and asserts that truly enough the
new Act only borrows some of the
provisions of Gladstone's Crimes Act.